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Being gun-shy and not wanting to destroy the MBR on the C: drive I figured that since there were two MBRs, one on C: and one on G:, I would go into DISKPART from the Win 7 install disk and 'inactivate' all drives except C:.

During the reboot after I did this, I went into the BIOS and disabled all drives in the boot sequence except the DVD and C: drives, figuring that this would likely force the system to boot from the MBR on C:, which, apparently, it did.

Then I used Acronis delete the partition and zero out the G: drive. And, wolah, I now have only one system image in backup (see attached).

Win 7 tries to image reformatted drive

Static drive letter and reformatted computerI'm asking this cause not sure. Say I had an external hard drive or USB with a static drive letter. I hear the static letter is only for the computer I set it and for not other computers.
If I reformat my computer, would the reformatted computer have the static letter for the drive or is it like...

Hardware & Devices

Reformatted hard drive, Windows product key not acceptedHi guys, my Asus notebook came with Vista and the tech installed the Win 7 upgrade a few years ago. (I have the upgrade disks but there is no product key on them and the tech has left the country.)
I recently reformatted the hard drive and inserted the Asus rescue and driver disks to get a clean...

Windows Updates & Activation

BSOD while browsing - recently reformatted driveHaving been the receipiant of several BSOD's recently I eventually got around to formatting my HD, I have since installed all necessary drivers and several programs (Chrome, Firefox, VLC player, Adobe Suite, McAfee Security Centre, etc).
The BSOD's have since reappeared and have occured 3-4...

BSOD Help and Support

Just reformatted my pc and now my 1T hard drive only has 100G!?So I just reformatted my hard drive today and now my 1t hard drive only has 100G on it. Now I have no idea what so ever why it only has 100G on it now but I do have some info that might be crucial to figuring out why!
1. So when i got my computer i put the system recovery files on 3 disks for...

Hardware & Devices

Reformatted drive not showing upI've got a WD My Book 1110 external hard drive, originally for Mac. My Mac died and so I got a Windows 7 machine. I extracted all the data, reformatted the two partitions I had on the drive, and moved the data back onto it. The partitions showed up with letters, all was fine, until I restarted my...